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Assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943 (Modern Jewish History) - Hardcover

Person, Katarzyna

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Synopsis

<p>Jews in Nazi-oppupied Warsaw during the 1940s were under increasing<br> threat as they were stripped of their rights and forced to live in a guarded<br> ghetto away from the non- Jewish Polish population. Within the ghettos,<br> a small but distinct group existed: the assimilated, acculturated, and baptized<br> Jews. Unwilling to integrate into the Jewish community and unable to<br> merge with the Polish one, they formed a group of their own, remaining<br> in a state of suspension throughout the interwar period. In 1940, with the<br> closure of the Jewish Residential Quarter in Warsaw, their identity was<br> chosen for them.<br> Person looks at what it meant for assimilated Jews to leave their prewar<br> neighborhoods, understood as both a physical environment and a mixed<br> Polish Jewish community, and enter a new, Jewish one. She reveals the<br> diversity of this group and how its members’ identity shaped their involvement<br> in and contribution to ghetto life. In the first English-language study<br> of this small but influential group, Person illuminates the important role of<br> the acculturated and assimilated Jews to the history and memory of the<br> Warsaw ghetto.</p>

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About the Author

Katarzyna Person is a researcher at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland.

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